However, if this vote result was a bad sign for marijuana advocates, what are we to assume about the future of the Republican Party in California?
You should not assume anything about future business plans based on our application.
What do I assume about that student?
But the standard models also assume that your choices about future actions are "time-consistent"—they do not depend on when you are asked to make the choice.
Puig also assumed about $20 million in debt.
It does not assume future acts of solidarity.
Your own speculation about the future -- which assumes that future generations of humans will not be better equipped to deal with nuclear waste than we are -- is also futurology.
By emphasizing these patterns, researchers can also help to find blind spots in the discourse, criticize assumed truths about the future, and point out alternative future scenarios which may not have been part of the discourse yet [32].
Given how little we know about long-run growth, simply assuming that the future will resemble the past is a natural guess.
First of all, we don't want policymakers to assume the worst about the future when shaping economic policy.
